CCR Change Notice: Sunday afternoon, December 21, 2008, the Central Contractor Registration (CCR) Update log-in procedure was updated to it's latest release. This release includes a change to User Accounts replacing the TPIN log-in formerly in use. Neither CCRXML nor BPN format CCR extracts have new versions with this release.
Release Notes are on-line to further fill you in on the change at Release Notes

Increase in Small Business Size Standards - The U. S. Small Business Administration (SBA) will increase all revenue based small business size standards on August 18, 2008. These size standards will be adjusted 8.7% for inflation and will be incorporated into CCR and the DSBS simultaneously. The size standards will not automatically be incorporated into ORCA profiles. A registrant must update their ORCA profile after August 18, 2008, in order for the adjusted size standards to appear in their ORCA profile. For more information on the increased size standards, please go to: http://www.sba.gov/size and click on "What's New".

CCR using D&B data for Registrant identification in CCR. . . .Read more

Validation of Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) in CCR
On October 30, 2005, the Central Contractor Registration (CCR) began validating the Taxpayer Identification Number and Taxpayer Name of each new and updating CCR registrant with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) records.
For more information, please see News item.

Information about your Average Number of Employees & Average Annual Receipts in your CCR Registration